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The symbolic meaning of the phoenix is about renewal.

The phoenix is about overcoming darkness and rising to the challenge to become powerful and succeed.

We are always in constant renewal with our lives and with our bodies.

There is never a time when your body is not dying and recreating.

Your stomach lining is brand new every 3-5 days.

Your skin cells change over every 30 days.

You have a brand new body (from a molecular viewpoint) every year (99.8%).

But, when it comes to living our lives, sometimes we avoid going through the natural cycles of life.

We avoid the death and resurrection of anew.  

Every time you learn something new or learn from an experience, a part of you dies and a new part is born.

Neuroplasticity works in the same way.

Tune in and enjoy a short episode on how I share how you are a phoenix and how to live like the phoenix...

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In this episode, I had the pleasure to have back on the show, Niraj Naik. Niraj and I had a blast on this podcast as we discussed all things in the world, current times, COVID, and how the breath can keep the turbulent waters calm.

To check out our former podcast episode, click on the links below

Podbean: https://themindfulexperiment.podbean.com/e/ep108-the-neuroscience-of-breathwork/

Website: https://www.empoweryourreality.com/single-post/2019/06/21/ep108-the-neuroscience-of-breathwork

Enjoy the episode and let us know what you think!

Who is Niraj Naik?

Niraj Naik is a certified pharmacist turned holistic health and breathwork expert. Having cured himself of Ulcerative Colitis, he is dedicated to helping others restore their health and improve their overall quality of life with holistic practices and lifestyle changes where stress and gut health is a contributing factor.

A professional musician, Niraj has produced music for Wim Hof and Marisa Peer, and his therapeutic music is used in wellness centres and spas internationally. Niraj is also the founder of SOMA Breath, the global breathwork movement taking the world by storm. He is a Mindvalley and Hay House author, creator of the world’s most viral infographic, a serial entrepreneur, and one of the world’s most sought after spiritual ceremony facilitators.

Niraj Naik is a certified pharmacist turned holistic health and breathwork expert. Having cured himself of Ulcerative Colitis, he is dedicated to helping others restore their health and improve their overall quality of life with holistic practices and lifestyle changes where stress and gut health is a contributing factor. He is known internationally as The Renegade Pharmacist and founder of SOMA Breath – the global breathwork and wellness movement taking the world by storm.

Niraj Naik is a certified pharmacist turned holistic health and breathwork expert. Having cured himself from Ulcerative Colitis, he is dedicated to helping others restore their health and improve their overall quality of life with holistic practices and lifestyle changes where stress and gut health is a contributing factor.

A professional musician, Niraj has produced music that is used in wellness centres and spas internationally. Niraj is also the founder of SOMA Breath, the global breathwork movement taking the world by storm. He is a Mindvalley and Hay House author, creator of the world’s most viral infographic, a serial entrepreneur, and one of the world’s most sought after spiritual ceremony facilitators.

Niraj Naik is an ex-pharmacist turned holistic health and breathwork expert. Known internationally as The Renegade Pharmacist, he is also the founder of SOMA Breath - the global breathwork and wellness movement taking the world by storm.

How to Connect with Niraj?

Instagram: @the_renegade_pharmacist and @somabreath

Facebook: facebook.com/groups/somabreath

Websites: www.therenegadepharmacist.com

www.somabreath.com 

https://www.therenegadepharmacist.com/

https://www.somabreath.com/

FB Group Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/somabreath

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In this episode, I share the importance of sharpening the knife. If you have ever seen a chef work its magic, you will notice they have their own knife set.

When they take out their knives, they sharpen them prior to using them.

After they are done, they will clean the knives, dry them off and give them one more sharpening before putting them away.

Why is this so critical for us to do in life?

The knife I share in this episode is going to be your mind.

How do you keep it sharp?

How do you keep it focused?

How do you keep it ready to go and not let the noise of the world distract you from what you want to accomplish and experience?

Tune in today and let us know what you think!

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In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing, Shu Matsuo Post. He is the author of the book, "I Took Here Name." In this episode, Shu talks about how he decided to go against the traditions of his Japanese heritage and do something that he desired and thought was important.

He took his wife's name rather than having her take his.

As a male, who was raised Italian Roman Catholic, it was never seen as the male to take the female's last name but always the other way around.

To hear a different perspective on the importance to Shu on why he did this and why he felt it was necessary to break through the barriers and conditioning of the world is truly worth reading the book and more importantly, listening to this podcast episode. :)

Tune in and let us know what you think...

Who is Shu Matsuo Post?

Shu is a successful businessman in Japan, one of the most gender-rigit nations on the planet. When he got married and chose to take his wife's name, the opposition he encountered gave him an unexpected glimpse into a woman's world.  

It also gave him a taste of vulnerability, emotional connection, and the freedom he had been craving all his life.

FLowing seamlessly between his own journey, his wife's journey and their journey together as they struggled to break the bonds of gender limitations, his first book, "I Took Her Name," is a powerful roadmap for defying expectations and becoming your authentic self.

How to Connect with Shu?

Website: https://shumatsuopost.com/en/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ITookHerName/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shumatsuopost/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shu-matsuo-post/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCBiJSI5HQM&feature=emb_logo

Book Website: https://www.itookhername.com/

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I remember growing up hearing, "You can't have your cake and eat it too."

Never understood how I couldn't have a slice of cake in front of me and not enjoy it.

But, as I got older and hopefully wiser, I learned that this was a form of a limited belief system.

Too many times, we put our limited beliefs upon someone else's dreams and visions.

Too many times, we spoil a pure mind and vision because we have a limitation.

But, don't let the limitations of others hold you back from what you desire to achieve in life.

Don't let someone tell you, "You can't do something."

You can only not do something if you believe this to be true.

Your belief is what creates your reality and as long as you give it power and life, it will continue to keep staying true because the Universe and your Brain MUST keep it that way UNTIL you change that belief and then, your reality will follow.

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In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Staci Wallace. You will be able to tell right off the bat that this woman is truly FUELED BY FIRE as this is also the title of her new book!

We discussed many things that relate to life but the biggest take away from me is, regardless of what someone has on the outside (success), you never know the inner battles that we all face and Staci will share her story on how she reinvented herself into the woman who truly is Fueled by Fire!

Tune in and let us know what you think!

Who is Staci Wallace?

Staci Wallace is a serial entrepreneur and leading expert in the field of business psychology and life mastery. Her specific focus is in helping CEO’s, influencers, and entrepreneurs make essential life and business hacks that lead to greater profits and ultimately building a life and business they love.

For over thirty years, Staci has been shifting the mindsets of great leaders and teams as an engaging speaker, thought leader, business executive, and author of eight books, including Fueled by Fire. Staci has shared the stage with five U.S. Presidents, helped build businesses into the hundreds of millions in revenue, and has grown and led sales teams into the hundreds of thousands. She is currently the host of The Comeback Small Business Radio Show, founder of the non-profit, EMwomen (Empowering Women), and EVP of Strategy for VOXOS, a 15 year-old telecom company bringing new-school marketing platforms to small business owners throughout the world. She is co-founder of EMpowerYOU Publishing and continues to help CEO’s and innovators bring

their bigger stories to life.

As a corporate executive, her unique business acumen and mastery strategy skills, give her a confident understanding of the physical, psychological and emotional dynamics leaders must master in scaling great companies today. She has dedicated her life to teaching leaders micro-distinctions and creative life hacks to live a balanced and deeply rewarding life while driving highly effective outcomes in the marketplace.

After a monumental life shift in 2017, where Staci and her husband chose to walk away from their executive careers for 2.5 years of servitude to the poor, they recognized that the massive gap between peace and profits could be bridged with a few micro-distinctions missed by most executives who are brilliant at company vision and often broken in the more meaningful things of life.

On a personal note: Those same life-hacks are what have fueled Staci’s marriage of 23 years and helped empower her two purposed-driven children.

Staci’s background as an avid basketball player and blackbelt in mixed martial arts, no doubt, have aided in her tenacious spirit to help leaders win in life. As a former recording artist with 5 CDs, Staci was the featured soloist for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Olympics. Her life is living proof that we are all well-capable of breaking through natural barriers and defying the odds of self-defeating rhetoric. If you can’t find Staci on stage, in a consulting role, or on-air, chances are, she’s on a creek fishing for trout in the mountains, somewhere around the world.

How to Connect with Staci?

Staci Wallace Connect

Website: www.StaciWallace.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/staciwallace/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/staciwallace

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/EmpoweredLivingTV

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/staciwallace/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/staciwallaceofficial

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There are so many reasons why one should give into:

Our excuses...

Our limited belief systems...

Our inner critic...

Our stories we made up...

Our distractions...

There are endless reasons to give in to so many things... Especially in a technological world...

But the question is, "how memorable do you want your life to be?"

When you realize the power within, you can achieve anything, as long as you don't give in to the BS, stories, excuses, limited belief systems (of yours or friends/family), and so forth.

But more importantly, is this a code you live by? What is a code?

Find out more by listening to the podcast episode and let us know what you think!

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In this podcast episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing the author of the book, "Mr. Monkey and Me," Mike Smerklo.

Mike shares the inner critic we all face and has done an amazing job of titling it, "The Monkey in my head."

I have always believed if you can make light of the inner critic within you, it takes less power over you and you can be more resilient to the words, emotions, and things it will say to you.

Check out the episode and learn more about the monkeys we all have within our heads!

Who is Mike Smerklo?

Mike Smerklo is an experienced entrepreneur, investor, and business leader driven by the desire to turn ideas into reality. Having bought and scaled a small business into a publicly-traded company worth nearly a billion dollars in value, he has a deep understanding of the hard work, dedication, and grit that truly powers successful entrepreneurship. Today, as the co-founder and managing director of Next Coast Ventures, Smerklo is a champion for a new generation of entrepreneurs building disruptive companies in big markets. His new book, Mr. Monkey and Me (Scribe Media, Nov. 17 2020), is a “real talk” guide for entrepreneurs who want to cut through the noise to cultivate a mindset that supports greatness.

Smerklo grew up in a blue-collar family outside of Toledo, Ohio, with dreams of achieving something more with his life. After working his way through college to earn an accounting degree and moving to Chicago to launch his CPA career, he eventually talked his way into a junior analyst gig with the Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers. While he hated the job, surviving two years of hellish 100-hour workweeks and countless spreadsheets (so many spreadsheets) gave Smerklo a solid understanding of finance and company building. He went on to earn an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and experienced the Silicon Valley dot-com boom as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.

Smerklo was recruited by legendary entrepreneurs Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz as one of the first employees of their new startup, Loudcloud. Here, he learned from the very best about what it takes to grow a company from an idea through an initial public offering.

Smerklo began his own entrepreneurship journey in 2003, purchasing ServiceSource, a 30-person technology services startup in San Francisco. As CEO over the next 12 years, he grew the business into a successful 3,000-person publicly-traded company with close to $300M in revenue.

He has developed a new perspective on entrepreneurship at the helm of the Austin-based firm Next Coast Ventures, which has backed more than 40 companies across two funds to help startup founders achieve their goals. Mike and his wife spend the bulk of their free time chasing their four children.

How to Connect

Website: https://www.mikesmerklo.com/about/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smerklo.mike/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikesmerklo/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikesmerklo

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikesmerklo/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC61Mtr5kAat0Wu6RCFE_9iQ

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Living in an information era has so many benefits but yet, also comes with an opportunity cost.

When we depend on information all day and that becomes our main focus, we build the muscle of the mind/ego to take over more.

It starts to be the leading way of life but when this happens, it is much easier to be controlled, distracted, and a loss of focus.

In this episode, I will share with you something to focus on that will be the beacon of light during dark times but also, the best guidance/compass system that exists.

No technology that man could ever come up with be more powerful of a tool than this.

Tune in and let us know what you think!

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In this episode, I interviewed the creator of, "The Successful Male," Joesph DiRoma.

Joe and I discussed what it takes to be a successful male in this world and how, growing up, both being Italians, we couldn't truly share our feelings or emotions as they were viewed as being weak.  

Joe discusses his journey through this process and shares his methods of what it takes and the journey to becoming a Successful Male in the modern-day world!

Tune in and let us know what you think!

Who is Joseph DiRoma?

Joseph is a Newfield Certified Coach trained in ontology, somatic disposition, emotional intelligence and specializes in personal development and leadership. Joseph first discovered his passion for people development while leading teams in operations in the hospitality industry. Being a product of personal transformation himself, he wanted to provide support for others to discover their full potential and gifts.

At The Successful Male, Joseph is leading the way toward developing a global community of men into better versions of themselves: more purposeful, more confident, more motivated, high character leaders who impact their families, community, and nations.

How to Connect with Joe?

Website: https://thesuccessfulmale.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesuccessfulmale

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_successful_male_na/

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-successful-male-podcast/id1247358719?mt=2

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Looking for Coaching?

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